Print Length: 348 pages
Publication Date: May 12, 2020
Sold by: Amazon.com Services LLC
Language: English
ASIN: B084Z551M6
A new dystopian sci-fi YA series from the New York Times bestselling author Colleen Houck
Warning all Astronauts:
COLONY BOUNDARY WARNING!
PERMISSION TO ENTER ALIEN FOREST IS REQUIRED
NOTE: NO RESCUE ATTEMPTS WILL BE MADE
In the future, a terraforming ship lands on a perfectly green planet.
Two perfect young men, one a budding colony leader, the other an engineer, compete for the affection of one perfect young woman training as a botanist.
The only problem?
She’s not perfect.
Astra has a secret.
A big one.
And someone or some thing just maybe trying to kill her for it
Deadly toxins can be hidden inside the most beautiful flowers.
That’s what Astra Meador’s famous biophysicist mother taught her.
As her mother’s apprentice, Astra has developed skills in botany, chemistry, medicine, and, most importantly, in keeping secrets.
In fact keeping Astra’s secret was the reason her family decided to leave the Earth and join a terraforming mission to colonize a distant planet called Crillain IV. But when Astra wakes early from hypersleep, she discovers that her mother never made it onboard, her father died in transit and his body has been ejected from the ship, and she suspects that she’s not the only one awake.
When the ship finally lands and she’s reunited with her brother, Nash, Astra hopes to settle into a new life, especially when she meets the charming young engineer, Jax, and is recruited by the mission commander to train alongside his handsome son to be a future leader of the small colony.
Then Astra learns that she’s not the only one with a dark secret.
As both young men contend for her affection, Astra searches for answers, trying to determine who to trust. But with theft and murder occurring in the colony along with the sudden disappearance of her beloved brother, Astra can’t listen to the whisperings of her heart, especially when someone or something else on the planet is whispering to her mind even louder.
Jan’s Review
This book stays true to Colleen Houck strength of luscious world building, beautiful detail descriptions, thrilling adventure, and some romance. I hated thane and his dad right from the start i knew they were dirty, underhanded, and i really did not want Astra with him at all. I love Jax him and his uncle. Jax takes everything he learns about Astra and embraces it. The main reason Astra is on this mission so she thinks is to find a way to cure her “asthma” which makes her inferior cause she not a perfect human.
The whole concept of plants being alive is really portrayed well in the gorgeous cover on this book. Ya can pull out clues of what is to be unfolded within the cover of this story. Their is a subplot going on beyond Astra and her colleges establishing a colony. Once that is under covered the whole Terraformer concept comes into play. Colleen has done a great job in the sci-fi genre by keeping us intrigued and not going over the top with the concept. As far as I know this is a stand alone novel but we all know that sometimes that not always the case. Pick this up this month on May 12, 2020 wherever you get your books.
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